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Katy Hall: 'Green Zone': Paul Greengrass & Matt Damon Take On Iraq

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Katy Hall http://www.huffingtonpost.com/katy-hall/ - Mar. 09 (Review) - Will Miller find WMD in Iraq? Will American reconstruction efforts in Baghdad go as planned in the face of growing insurgency? Of course not, but there are enough frenetic firefights to maintain a satisfying level of suspense.

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The NYT Veers Neocon

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Feb. 28 (Opinion) - Many American progressives don't want to recognize how bad the U.S. mainstream news media has become. It's easier to praise a few exceptions to the rule and to hope that some pendulum will swing than to undertake the challenging task of building a new and honest media infrastructure. But the hard reality is that the U.S. news media is getting worse, with now both premier national newspapers - the New York Times and the Washington Post - decidedly sliding into the neocon camp, where the likes of the Wall Street Journal have long resided.

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Full-Court Press: The "Four Horsemen" Call for a Nuclear Weapons Spending Surge

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Darwin Bond Graham, Will Parrish, Nicholas Robinson - Feb. 05 (Opinion) - In the December edition of Z Magazine we published a lengthy feature examining the new politics of "anti-nuclear nuclearism," a rhetoric whereby hawkish elites vaguely tout the goal of "disarmament" in order to actually boost nuclear weapons spending and advance a long-term, militarized, pro-nuclear vision. read more

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Funding Public Health Care with a Publicly Owned Bank: How Canada Did It

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - By Ellen Brown - Jan. 25 (Opinion) - The Massachusetts gubernatorial upset means the President may have to start over with his health care bill. The good news is that there's still a chance for the public option the voters thought they would be getting. How to fund it? The way Canada did -- with credit issued by the government's own central bank.

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Iran and the Goldilocks Principle: Why Kuperman is Completely Wrong and the Leveretts are Only Partly Right and There are no Tunnel Bombs

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Informed Comment - By Juan Cole - Jan. 07 (Opinion) - In the past three weeks, Iran observers have been baffled by the range of opinion appearing on the op-ed page of The New York Times concerning Iran, and the uneven reporting on that country. Before the holidays, Alan Kuperman, a political scientist at the University of Texas Austin, called for bombing Iran-- becoming the first respectable academic in the US to take a position usually associated with discredited angry Neoconservatives such as John Bolton. Kuperman's argument is wrong in almost every particular, and that the NYT editors published it was considered alarming by many Iranists. We all remember how the newspaper printed a long series of bald-faced lies and easily disproved fantasies about 'weapons of mass destruction' in Iraq in 2002, which certainly helped legitimate and pave the way for war on that country. We worried that the fix was in against Iran.

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Iran Sanctions Are a Precursor to War

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Information Clearing House - By Ron Paul - Dec. 22 (Advocacy) - If a foreign government attempted to isolate the US economically, cut off our supply of gasoline, or starve us to death, would it cause Americans to admire that foreign entity? Or would we instead unite under the flag for the survival of our country?

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Missile Defense Could Be the Silver Bullet

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

sptimes.ru - By Dmitry Trenin - Nov. 08 (Opinion) - In the eyes of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the “resetting” of U.S.-Russian relations became a reality only six weeks ago, when U.S. President Barack Obama announced his decision to reconfigure U.S. missile defense plans for Europe. Putin called Obama’s step “courageous,” which, coming from him, is perhaps the highest form of personal approbation

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The Story of 'Operation Orchard': How Israel Destroyed Syria's Al Kibar Nuclear Reactor - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:27:40 -0800

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Obama may face fight on treaties

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Bender, Bryan - Oct. 25 (Opinion) - President Obama's vision of global cooperation - symbolized by his surprise Nobel Peace Prize - is in for a crucial test in the months ahead when he begins sending a series of treaties to the US Senate, where skepticism ...Questions for Thorbjorn Jagland Peace Be With YouNew York TimesWSJIDEBATE: Was It Premature to Honor Obama with the Nobel Peace Prize?Wall Street JournalObama Gets 'Incomplete' as Decisions on War, Joblessness LoomBloombergBellingham Herald?-Niles Daily Star?-The MIT Techall 165 news articles??

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Iran's nuclear programme: Deadline missed

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Oct. 24 (Editorial) - Iran has again failed to do deadlines. It has been evading them in the seven years since an opposition group first outed its extensive covert nuclear programme, despite five UN Security Council resolutions that have told it to halt its suspect nuclear work. After talks that ended in Vienna on October 21st, Iran and the three countries trying to strike a side-deal over new fuel for a Tehran-based nuclear reactor were told by Mohamed ElBaradei, outgoing chief of the UN’s nuclear guardian, that they had just two days to take his draft agreement or leave it.

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A World Without Nuclear Weapons: Six Wrong-Headed Cliches about Disarmament

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Der Spiegel - By Oliver Thränert - Oct. 21 (Opinion) - A world without nuclear weapons presupposes a new world order. It is a goal that will not be achieved overnight. However, we should begin. Sooner or later, the assumption that humanity can continue to live with nuclear weapons without deploying them will prove to be a misapprehension.

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Israel pays close attention as Iran nuclear talks set to start

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Worldfocus - Sep. 30 (Interview) - With crucial talks aimed at curtailing Iran’s nuclear program set to begin, the rhetoric is heating up. On Thursday, the United States, along with the other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany, will meet with Iranian officials in Switzerland hoping to convince Iran to come clean about its nuclear ambitions. They may be fighting an uphill battle. On Wednesday, Iranian President Mamhoud Ahmadinejad said that it’s the West that needs to change its ways. Israel will be following the progress of the negotiations closely. There has been talk that the Israelis will take military action against Iran, if the talks don’t succeed.

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How to Press the Advantage With Iran

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett - Sep. 29 (Opinion) - Instead of relying on sanctions, the Obama administration should seek a strategic realignment with Iran, as President Nixon did with China.

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Iran’s intentions

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Dawn - Sep. 28 (Editorial) - IRAN’S disclosure about its upcoming uranium enrichment facility has expectedly upset the US and its western allies. As it is the two sides have been trading charges and counter-charges since 2003 when Iran’s nuclear programme came to light.

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Ellsberg's Hiroshima Remembrance

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Daniel Ellsberg - Aug. 07 (Opinion) - I had a sense of dread, a feeling that something very ominous for humanity had just happened. A feeling, new to me as an American, at 14, that my country might have made a terrible mistake. I was glad when the war ended nine days later, but it didn’t make me think that my first reaction on Aug. 6 was wrong.

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Time for United States to keep promise on nuclear disarmament

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Cherie Eichholz - Aug. 06 (Opinion) - More than 50 years after the United States dropped nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States has a golden opportunity to salvage the promise it made in an international 1968 nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

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Hiroshima Survivor Remembers the Day - NAM

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Tara Sheena Wakely - Aug. 05 (Review) - Nichi Bei Times Contributor If you cut off a piece of fingernail and burn itthat's what burning human flesh smells like, said Seiko Fujimoto, who was just three years old when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Even so, her

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On Iran, Do Nothing. Yet

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Newsweek - By Fareed Zakaria - Jul. 29 (Opinion) - The hyperbole in America and Israel about apocalyptic mullahs with nukes missed the big story in Iran, which was that the mullahs were not apocalyptic, and they were fading in influence anyway. One might have said that the Islamic Republic of Iran is losing its distinct religious basis of power and becoming another Middle Eastern dictatorship—except that it now hosts an opposition movement that does not seem ready to quiet down.

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Pushing South Asia Toward the Brink

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

fpif.org - By Zia Mian - Jul. 27 (Opinion) - The contradictions and confusions in U.S. policy in South Asia were on full display during Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's recent visit to India. U.S. support for India, which centers on making money, selling weapons, and turning a blind eye to the country's nuclear weapons, is fatally at odds with U.S. policy and concerns about Pakistan. By enabling an India-Pakistan arms race, rather than focusing on resolving the conflict and helping them make peace, the United States is driving Pakistan toward the very collapse it fears.

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Kevin Martin, Executive Director, Reacts to Obama’s Russian Deals

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

peaceblog.wordpress.com - By Kevin Martin - Jul. 06 (Press Release) - It’s good to see the U.S. and Russia making progress on nuclear arms reductions again, and the Obama’s Administration’s overall priority on rebuilding a positive relationship with Russia is extremely important. However, the announced reductions are fairly modest. The conventional wisdom is that these proposed cuts are the best that can be accomplished right now, but the two countries could go further and announce the initiation of negotiations to eliminate all nuclear weapons, which would be accomplished in stages over the next ten years or so.

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Obama, Medvedev and the Demise of Nuclear Deterrence

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Tad Daley, Kevin Martin - Jul. 03 (Opinion) - It is not entirely clear to us why the international community considers it wholly legitimate for the United States to say, "if North Korea engages in aggression against South Korea or the United States, we will retaliate with nuclear weapons," while it universally condemns North Korea when it says, "if the United States engages in aggression against us, we will retaliate with nuclear weapons." Perhaps, in light of all this radioactive rhetoric, it is worth pausing to consider just what "nuclear deterrence" might mean in today's world ... or whether it means anything at all.

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Kicking the Nuclear Habit

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Lawrence Wittner - Jun. 27 (Opinion) - Six reasons for supporting nuclear abolition are particularly cogent.

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Opinion: Will Obama stand up to North Korea?

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Michael Moran - Jun. 24 (Opinion) - Inheritor of a zombie banking sector, a seized-up auto industry, two raging wars, and poisonous hands in Iran and North Korea, he’s had little time to put a stamp of his own on world events. And the best case scenario for many of these problems is slow, gradual improvement. For some, including Iran, North Korea, and aspects of the global economy, improvement depends less than ever on America’s actions.

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Nuclear Treaty Faces Challenges

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Gustavo Zlauvinen - Jun. 09 (Interview) - The 40-year-old Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is under stress because of new nations mastering the skills for building nuclear bombs, some nations hiding their nuclear capabilities, and established nuclear powers refusing to move toward disarmament.

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North Korea: How to Deal With Dictator Kim Jong-il

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Robert Joseph - Jun. 06 (Opinion) - Holding out the prospect of “further isolating” Pyongyang and calling for a return to the diplomatic table must be music to the ears of the ailing Dear Leader who wants nothing more than to be thrown in that briar patch. This may be particularly important as the uncertain succession drama continues in North Korea. Kim Jong-il understands that the very survival or his regime, particularly as it transitions to his young heir, is dependent on his country being isolated.

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